Profoundly Entertaining: An Introduction to Shakespeare's ArtistryXlibris Corporation, 2. 11. 2006 - Počet stran: 506 Profoundly Entertaining offers the general reader a chance to think about Shakespeares artistry in a sustained way. Entertaining as Shakespeares plays are, that quality by itself wouldnt justify the effort required to overcome the difficulty their language poses. Their enduring popularity suggests that, to varying degrees, their audiences sense their profundity even if they cannot confidently articulate their experience. Without any overarching argument to makemerely with admiration for the most intelligent, honest, courageous, and sustained confrontation of human life of which we have written recordthe book invites its readers to accompany Shakespeare on his journey of exploration into the human condition unobscured by prevailing orthodoxies and comforting illusions. |
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... plot and some of the characters. True, most of these plots would not have been as familiar to his audiences as, say, Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia or Oedipus' discovery of his patricide and incest were to the Greeks. So ...
... plot and some of the characters. True, most of these plots would not have been as familiar to his audiences as, say, Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia or Oedipus' discovery of his patricide and incest were to the Greeks. So ...
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... Sly's lust ; if all the characters in the main plot ( the “ taming ” ) can be introduced as Sly's household actors playing those characters while the other characters in the Induction look on ; then Katherina's 42 HERBERT B. ROTHSCHILD JR .
... Sly's lust ; if all the characters in the main plot ( the “ taming ” ) can be introduced as Sly's household actors playing those characters while the other characters in the Induction look on ; then Katherina's 42 HERBERT B. ROTHSCHILD JR .
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... plot of a Plautus play, figures importantly into Shakespeare's conception of the action and its outcome. We'll also look at another plot complication, the introduction of the Fairy king and queen and their trains, which is a doubling of ...
... plot of a Plautus play, figures importantly into Shakespeare's conception of the action and its outcome. We'll also look at another plot complication, the introduction of the Fairy king and queen and their trains, which is a doubling of ...
Strana 70
... plots contain the essential elements of tragedy — a person of high degree falls from power as a consequence of his own choices , and he dies . So it isn't surprising that , when these two plays were printed in unauthorized quarto ...
... plots contain the essential elements of tragedy — a person of high degree falls from power as a consequence of his own choices , and he dies . So it isn't surprising that , when these two plays were printed in unauthorized quarto ...
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... plot came from relatively recent English history . Let's break that definition down to be clear about it . To qualify as a history play , the plot couldn't be drawn from just any period of history . Three of Shakespeare's plays , Julius ...
... plot came from relatively recent English history . Let's break that definition down to be clear about it . To qualify as a history play , the plot couldn't be drawn from just any period of history . Three of Shakespeare's plays , Julius ...
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Profoundly Entertaining: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Artistry Herbert B. Rothschild Náhled není k dispozici. - 2006 |
Profoundly Entertaining: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Artistry Herbert B. Rothschild Náhled není k dispozici. - 2006 |
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